Edgerton Family History
Edgerton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places, in Kent and
Cheshire, called Egerton. The former is so called from Old English
Ecgheardingtun ‘settlement (Old English tun)
associated with Ecgheard’ (see Eckert); the second,
which is the main source of the surname, is more likely to have been
named as the ‘settlement of Ecghere’ (in which the second
element is Old English here ‘army’).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Edgerton Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Edgerton families
 49 - 96  17 - 48 |
 1 - 16  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Edgerton families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Edgerton Family Origin
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Edgerton Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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